I finished this book last night and very much enjoyed it. I’m going to go work out and then come back later today and review the book. I would encourage every American who can read to take the time to read the book before our next election cycle. If this eliminates half of the Trump base…then so be it. That’s on you.’
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This was a nice little book told in a folksy manner about the life of Harold Hamm. It’s a story about a poor kid from rural Oklahoma from a family of thirteen children who becomes the epitome of an oil and gas wildcatter who hits it extremely big.
I especially liked the book, being my son has now been in the oil and gas commodity and hedge aspect of energy for fourteen years. My son started at Devon and then took a job with a company in Denver at Antero Resources which is one of the largest publicly traded natural gas and LNG companies in the U.S.
I’m always eager to learn more about the oil and gas business, while improving my literacy on the subject.
I pretty much agree with Harold Hamm in this book. I think it’s foolish for the far left wing of the Democratic Party to strive to eliminate the American oil and gas business.
With the advent of horizontal drilling the U.S. has become the leading natural gas producing country in the world and could be the same with oil if the U.S. governement took a more broadened, pragmatic view of how to integrate the ‘somewhat’ efficent renewables with what we already have in place.
Harold and I agree that banning the burning of dirty coal around the world should be the first step in reducing the world’s carbon footprint.
Currently, the U.S. contributes 11% of the world’s carbom emissions while China and India lead the world in carbon release because they both use dirty coal as a means of creating their electricity needs.
It wasn’t that long ago the U.S was contributing 19% of he world’s carbon release. The U.S industry needs to continue to use every technology available to accelerate carbon recapture.
I think everyone, excepting the most ‘out there’ Trump supporters…pretty much agree climate change is a real thing and it is related to carbon emissions. To me…the most logical step for America would be to bring China and India on board using natural gas as their primary source of creating electricity.
There’s an anacronym used in the current American oil and gas business called ESG…which stands for Environmental Societal Governance. This is where the American oil and gas industry has to continue to not only educate Americans, but the rest of the world as well as we all work together in a pragmatic manner to reduce the world’s carbon emission levels, while at the same time not allowing the Democracies around the world to be held captive by dubious characters like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
This will take nuance and the far left wing in this country needs to come to terms with this fact unless they’re okay with diminishing many of the current luxuries enjoyed in America today by everyone. Possibly one, being democracy.
I don’t agree with Harold Hamm on Donald Trump. I believe that a country upwards of 330 million people…one would hope the Republican Party could come up with a more mature, pragmatic leader than Donald Trump.
Maybe Harold will change his mind. But I know I’m not changing my mind on this subject of POTUS 45.
In closing, let me use a verbatim quote by Harold as to what should be the American vision on oil and gas moving forward: pg. 244, paragraph 5.
‘Let’s quit pretending we have an energy strategy. ‘No more fossil fuels’ sure isn’t one. The energy transition and the use of oil and natural gas are not mutually exclusive.’
I would give Game Changer a thumbs up as a book I hope most Americans take the time to read.
MJ